Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-26
to appropriate this amount refused to issue
a warrant except for the So, 900.

to appropriate this amount refused to issue
a warrant except for the So, 900.
Speaking of this matter today an official
who is familiar with the state farm and
its management, said: prof. Sanborn
was present when the agricultural appro-
priation bill was discussed and amended
and went back to Columbia fully satisfied
that the amendment cut out all the appro
priation in the original bill, and even when
the board met the first time afterward in
Columbia, DR.. Laws and Prof. SanbQrn
were discussing the question as to what
could be done with the 5000 appropriated
in the amendment for the cattle and sheep
and implement shelter. Then the
question was discussed as to the propriety
of putting the two together and building
a barn for all purposes But it became ev
ident that an error had been committed
and the IS, 600, that it was the intention of
the committee to cut out, had been mad
yertently left IN, whereupOn the agricul-
tural professor changed his base and
claimed the 1900, although appropriated
for different purposes, for the bill as
amended and now in the law reads as fol
lows: For cattle and sheep farms and
proper apparatus for experimental work,
IS. 600: for sheds, Toulouse and hog
and sheep barns, the sum of 5000.
Now. it will be seen from the reading that
only $1,000 has been appropriated for barn
and Sheds yet this whole 81, 600 has been
expended and more too, in building the
hull of barn over 100 feet long and sixty
feet wide, and there it is today, in no CON
ditiOn for stock or the storage of feed, for
there is not floor. stall, stairway, man
ger, trough, hay loft. corn bin, or anything
but the foundation, frame work, roof,
weather boarding and doors. This barn Is
out III an open pasture with no fence en-
closing it and even the foundation is I'M
protected, as the ground has not even been
leveled uD to keep water from running into
the basement. Now, these agricultural
gentlemen at Columbia desire to get the
$, coo TO finish up this magnificent barn
in which Prof. Sanborn intends to show
the farmer boys how to shelter cattle, sheep
and hOgs; how TO take care OF feed, how TO
prepare the feed with steam engines, how
to save manure, how to protect sheep hogs
and farming utensils from the summers
heat and winters blasts, and how to make
mich cows out OF two-year-old shorthorn
heifers, for which the state, through Prof.
Sanborn as agent, paid $3.50 a piece. The
$3.50 heifers were bought even in the face
of the fact that just as good
heifers could have been bought for 800 or
S125 per head, and are really sold on the
market for SIS and $50 per bead. Thus
goes the money appropriated TO the
agricultural farm, but by what
process of reasoning the members Of
the beard, VINO are pushing the mandapus
against the state auditor, can use that
$1,000 if secured to finish up that spacious
barn, is not very clear, especially as that
$4,000, by the wondering of the law, was
appropriated ''for cattle and sheep farms
and proper apparatus for experimental
work" Much has been said about the
proceeds from the agricultural farm, and
some Of it is said, went into that barn;
but would it not been much better to have
spent the proceeds of the farm in making
few simple Improvements in the way of
conveuiences? Those old dilapidated
fences, broken down stalls and vermont
gates could easily be put in shape to cor
respond at least with the farms OF the
state